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...incidence of tendonitis and carpal tunnelsyndrome goes up exponentially for those who workmore than an hour or an hour and a half non-stop."says Skoff. "The most important behaviormodification [for prevention] is to take a breakevery hour...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Student Injuries On Rise | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

...film is best when it doesn't have to worry about establishing convincing characters and it can concentrate on basketball. The conclusion consists of non-stop basketball action--slam dunks, slo-mo, the whole shebang--all to a thumpin' hip-hop soundtrack. The film achieves its ultimate triumph with not one, but THREE twists which include two last minute jumpshots and three slow-motion shootings...

Author: By John Donahue, | Title: Courting Disaster | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...says Hector, "salted, salted." Which might make you think that he's not taking the experience very seriously. He is not, however, without fear or selfpity. What makes his experience visible to the reader is that he does not demonstrate his lack of denial, as he says, by non-stop screaming. AIDS leaves him quite clearly a human being, as it does in fact to all of those who contract it, and because we have not known Hector previously, the story is new, we have not in fact heard it before. In this sense he may well achieve in some...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Kondoleon's Lost Boy Laughs at Death | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

What the show does have in abundance is a non-stop barrage of high-volume song and dance numbers, staged in drill team fashion by director/choreographer Jeff Calhoun. The appealing songs are the ones you already know: "Summer Loving," "We Go Together" and "Greased Lightnin,"' and the others aren't worth hearing. The one good thing about O'Donnell's plaintive lament, "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" is that it is fairly short. The problem with playing classics like "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "Peggy Sue" at intermission is that they highlight the poverty of the show...

Author: By Rachel B. Tiven, | Title: Grease: You've Seen This One Before | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...worked literally non-stop my first yearbecause I believed that academic success was theonly way I could justify my collegiate Experience.I mean, it got me into Harvard. Why couldn't itget me through life...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: That Problem Set Doesn't Really Matter Much | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

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